The Primary Care Workforce Access Improvement Act of 2013 would allow part of graduate medical education payments to go directly to residency programs that are community-based. The programs would collaborate with area hospitals to fully train primary care providers.
Currently, GME funding goes directly to hospitals and does not support training in non-hospital settings, according to the report, even though 90 percent of primary care is provided outside of hospitals.
Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.) and Rep. Mike Thompson (D-Calif.) reintroduced the bipartisan bill this year.
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